insiders on what it takes to get social housing
- Written by Alan Morris, Professor, Institute of Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
Social housing has become extremely difficult to access; in 2021 around 160,000 households were on the waiting list.
To have any chance of getting a social housing spot in a reasonable time frame, applicants must be on the priority waiting list; people on the general waiting list may never get social housing.
However, to get on the priority list,...